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Risk Assessment

Guidance on Cumulative Risk Assessment: Part 1. Planning and Scoping

The practice of risk assessment within EPA is evolving away from a focus on the potential of a single pollutant in one environmental medium for causing cancer toward integrated assessments involving suites of pollutants in several media that may cause a variety of adverse effects on humans, plants, animals or even effects on ecological systems and their processes and functions.
 
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